Cathy Green - Health and social development

Overview

Cathy Green is Health Partners International’s Director of Social Development. She has worked as a health and social development consultant on a range of consultancy assignments in Africa and Asia. She has participated in the design, appraisal, review and evaluation of programmes and projects focused on strengthening health systems, reproductive and sexual health, primary health care, malaria, and eye care and eye care rehabilitation.

Key areas of Cathy’s expertise include:

  • social appraisal of health interventions
  • social development issues in health systems strengthening
  • gender analysis
  • stakeholder analysis
  • social monitoring systems
  • community health and participation
  • qualitative research
  • logical framework development and review
  • project management.


Background and relevant experience

Cathy is currently providing ongoing technical advisory support in social development to the Maternal Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) Programme in Nigeria funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID). Cathy provided technical advisory support in health and social development to the Partnership for Transforming Health Systems (PATHS) programme in Nigeria, funded by DFID. She has also undertaken a number of short-term consultancy assignments for the programme, including the design and subsequent strategic review of a demand-side safe motherhood programme in Northern Nigeria, and contributing on social development aspects to technical meetings on child health, strengthening health management and drug revolving funds, and deferral and exemption schemes in the health sector.

Since September 2002, Cathy has also been involved in providing ongoing technical and project management support to the Gender and Health Equity Network (GHEN), a partnership concerned with developing and implementing policies to improve gender and health equity in resource-constrained environments.

Cathy’s other work has included a review of social development technical assistance provided to the Health and Population Sector Programme in Bangladesh; provision of social development support to a hospital reform programme in Malawi; review and restructuring of a web-based dossier on meeting the health-related needs of the very poor, and inputs to a DFID workshop on this issue; production of a social appraisal for the project design of a £30m Health Commodities Project in Nigeria; social development inputs to a Peer and Participatory Rapid Hospital Appraisal for Action (PPRHAA) process at three referral hospitals in Tanzania; and the evaluation of community-based rehabilitation projects supported by Sight Savers International in Bangladesh.

Previously Cathy worked as a social development consultant and projects manager with Options Consultancy Services (1996−2000), formerly DFID’s Resource Centre in Reproductive Health and Population, and as a consultant and researcher in gender analysis and development at the Institute of Development Studies, UK (1993−4).

Cathy has consulted in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, China, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique, Ghana, Gambia, Nigeria, and Malawi.